The Spawns of Creative Behaviour in Team Sports: A Creativity Developmental Framework

William A. Harper William A. Harper is College Professor at Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana. William was Head of Health & Kinesiology between 2006 - 2011 and currently writes all Player Development Project research reviews.

Sara D. L. Dos Santos, Daniel Memmert, Jaime Sampaio, and Nuno Leite

The Big Idea

In the team sports it is traditional that when coaches are asked what they are coaching, the usual response is, for example, “I coach soccer.” But if soccer coaches were collectively to adopt the general idea of what these researchers call the Creativity Development Framework, they might be more inclined to say “I coach creativity.” However odd this latter response may seem, the authors of this paper imply that this is exactly what coaches should...

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William A. Harper is College Professor at Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana. William was Head of Health & Kinesiology between 2006 - 2011 and currently writes all Player Development Project research reviews.

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